NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

“The team-building model of some teams is quite puzzling. Once they encounter setbacks or problems, they will attribute the responsibility to the players, coaches, market and even fans. But the management of these teams never think about the real problem of the team’s failure——”

“No management!”

After the game, Lin Tian couldn't help but fired directly in front of the media.

At the post-match press conference, when a reporter asked Lin Tian how he felt about tonight's big win over the Timberwolves and asked him to give physical advice to the Timberwolves team, Lin Tian chose to tell the truth.

But the truth is often the most deadly bomb.

"You said the Timberwolves, how many players have they changed from one term to the next? Have they changed? It's just a different soup but the same substance!"

"Casey also has something to say. What kind of lineup did my predecessor lead? What kind of lineup did I lead? You want me to lead them to win the championship? What lineup does the Timberwolves have now? You, Szczerbiak, are playing as the main attacker. You want Jason and Kevin to play as the main attacker. Can they do it? They can't!"

"He doesn't have that attribute, you know? Now he's ranked 11th in the West, and next he'll be ranked 12th or 13th, and then he'll be at the bottom. There's nowhere to go."

"We're not that bad! We have two superstars, we can turn things around at any time, and as long as we get the team working together well, we can explode again and enter the playoffs at any time!" A local Minnesota reporter was obviously dissatisfied and stood up to refute.

"Oh, thank you on behalf of the Minnesota Timberwolves! They didn't get along well today, can you guarantee that they will get along well tomorrow, next week, or next month? Be pragmatic, don't just think about piling up stars, first understand the stars' playing style and tactics clearly."

"First understand the philosophy of basketball, then build a team. Allen and Kevin led the team very well, why did you replace him? How else can you explain your 35-point loss to us at home today?"

"The Minnesota management still thinks it's the players' fault. They have no shame!"

Lin Tianyi's attack was directed at the Timberwolves' management. In fact, generally speaking, or most of the time, players rarely attack the management.

After all, he is the players' boss and the financial backer. What good will come of offending the management?
Unless there is a complete falling out or some irreconcilable feud, most of the time, the players will not challenge the management and will not make the management look too bad.

But Lin Tian is obviously not an ordinary player. His current status, popularity, ability and achievements are enough for him to fire at anyone, and no management can do anything to him.

Who allowed him to play, win championships and sell tickets and peripherals?

He is very popular and good at fighting, so arrogant!
Lin Tian’s public attack this time officially made the Timberwolves management a laughing stock.

After all, anyone who knows a little about basketball can see that Garnett and Kidd are absolutely incompatible! And Iverson and Garnett complement each other perfectly.

They lost to the Lakers last year because the team had serious injuries. If there were no injuries, I can’t say they would definitely beat the Lakers, but the game would definitely be a close one.

But the team just had to break up during the offseason. Compared to the OK combination of the Lakers that lasted for ten years before having to break up, the Timberwolves' breakup this time really seems extremely stupid.

In particular, the Lakers dismantled the team and acquired McGrady, one of the league's top scorers. Although the combination of him and Kobe is unlikely to continue to dominate the Western Conference, it is enough to keep the team at a top five level in the Western Conference, and their competitiveness is quite good!

And what about the Timberwolves?
Their competition for the No. 1 pick is becoming increasingly fierce.

All we can say is that for the same deal, the problem of management vision naturally leads to different results for each team.

At least for the Timberwolves, it is obvious that they will be in trouble if there is no trade.

"Thanks, Lin, you are our real good friend!"

"Respect! You will always be my idol Lin!"

"You said what I wanted to say! You are so amazing!"

"That's right! Some management have lost all their dignity and are still blaming our players. Go to hell with them!"

"I support you Lin! I support you Lin!"

That night, Lin Tian received countless text messages and phone calls, of course from players from all teams in the league and Lin Tian’s friends. Lin Tian’s righteous words tonight may not change anything, nor will it change the current situation of the players.

But if someone dares to say it out loud, then that’s something to be happy about!

After Lin Tian spoke first, stars from teams across the league expressed their opinions one after another in the following days.

People say all kinds of things, but everyone has only one core idea.

"Lin Tian is right!"

Overnight, Lin Tian's reputation among the players grew.

This unprecedented surge in status was truly something Lin Tian had not expected.

His original idea was really just to say something, it was that simple.

He didn't think about anything else at all.

What was even more unexpected to Lin Tian was that on the second day after they played against the Timberwolves, the representative of the players' union, who is now the executive chairman of the players' union, an important contributor to the 99 labor-management negotiations and an important figure among the players: Billy Hunter called him.

"Lin, I'm Billy, the executive chairman of the Players' Union. You should know that the Players' Union is about to hold an election..."

"No, I don't know about this, absolutely nothing." Lin Tian shook his head without even thinking, indicating that he was not interested in this matter at all.

"You're just as much of a jerk as the rumors say." Billy Hunter said with a smile, "But I don't care whether you know it or not. I hope you can run for election. I hope you can become the chairman of the current players' union! Your sense of responsibility, your position in the league, your character and abilities are all perfect for this position!"

"we need you."

"No, you don't need to. I have no sense of responsibility at all. I hate troublesome things. I don't like to take any responsibilities. I like to avoid everything I'm not interested in. If I have a choice, I don't want to get involved in any unnecessary things."

"Lin, if you say that, everyone will get hurt..." When Billy wanted to continue persuading Lin Tian, ​​Lin Tian had already hung up the phone.

Are you kidding me? You want to use this big guy to kidnap me?
Don't even think about it.

This damn players' union chairman is useless to Lin Tian.

Apart from enhancing Lin Tian's voice in the league and gaining more respect from the players, it can be said that he will not bring anything to Lin Tian.

There is no salary, no honor, no income, and the relationship between himself and the owners of various teams will become bad.

Those who like to be opinion leaders and like to stand out would be very eager for this position, but obviously, Lin Tian has no interest in it.

He is too lazy to be an opinion leader to help a bunch of Americans increase their wages and benefits!
Simply put, it has no benefits but only harms, and it has nothing to do with me, Mr. Lin!

If Lin Tian wanted to join the players' union, he would have done so during the lockout in 98. Why would he have to wait until now?
Even if Lin Tian became the union chairman, wouldn't he have to consider the players' expressions and tempers if he wanted to fight or swear in the future?
No, no! This is not something you can do at all.

He is totally uninterested in this kind of thing which is troublesome, has no benefits and has many disadvantages, and he doesn't give it any face at all.

Don't even think about anyone trying to persuade you.

However, what surprised Lin Tian even more was that in the next few days, people from all walks of life really came to persuade him.

From various players, his own guys, Pelinka to some other players' agents, they all contacted Lin Tian in various ways, hoping that he could do this. But unfortunately, Lin Tian made up his mind not to do this!
But everyone's enthusiasm was obviously not dampened at all. A week later, when Lin Tian and the Knicks visited Washington, Arenas brought up the matter again.

提？
Mention your sister!
The tireless Lin Tian was in great form in this game, scoring a season-high 51 points!
Not only did Lin Tian score 51 points, he also defended Arenas, who only scored 25 points with 8 of 21 shots!
In this game, Lin Tian was violently rampaging and cursing at the same time, making Arenas question his life.

Who am I? Where am I? Why was I beaten so badly by Lin?
This game can be regarded as Lin Tian’s way of showing his power to everyone.

If anyone mentions this to me again, I will beat them to death!

Arenas was beaten badly in this game, and he also knew why he was beaten so badly.

So this guy decided: I must not tell anyone why I was beaten so badly!
It's not a matter of face or not. It's not shameful to be beaten by Lin Tian. Arenas simply thinks: I can't be the only one to suffer bad luck.

So, after the game, the first thing Arenas did was to ask the team staff for a schedule.

The staff certainly had no idea what Arenas was going to do, but Washington's public relations staff was pretty good.

He quickly captured the moment Arenas got the schedule, and then published a soft article.

"Arenas did not admit defeat after the crushing defeat! He immediately asked for the schedule after the game, wanting to compete with the Knicks again!"

Well, the image of a defeated but unyielding and full of fighting spirit comes to life on the paper!

But if the PR team knew what Arenas was going to do next, they would definitely regret it and would definitely curse: What the fuck!

Well, because Arenas didn't get the Wizards' schedule, he wanted the Knicks' schedule.

After taking a look, this guy called Deron Williams of the Hornets first.

"Lin is already tempted, so hurry up and agree. You are his younger brother, so if you persuade him a little more, he will be able to become the union chairman! It would be best if you can talk to him on the court while he is playing, so that he will feel embarrassed and unable to refuse, and then the deal will be done!"

"No problem! Leave it to me!" Delon agreed happily. Young and naive, he didn't know what was waiting for him.

He was even happily waiting for Lin Tian to come and drink his sweet soup!
If I can handle this, my status and reputation in the alliance will also rise!

And then? Then Deron experienced the most painful night of his career.

18投5中，13分6助攻7失误，外加只登场26分钟就被林天打的6犯离场！
Lin Tian scored 50+ points for the second consecutive game!
53 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists!

Deron finally understood why Arenas was beaten so badly and happily asked him to persuade Lin Tian.

Arenas is such a jerk! I thought of him as my big brother!

He was playing tricks on me on purpose!
No, I can't swallow this! I can't just let it go!

So, that night Deron did exactly the same thing as Arenas. He asked for the schedule, then called Paul, who entered the league in the same year as him, and said exactly the same things as Arenas.

And then?
再然后客场挑战尼克斯队的勇士惨败57分！保罗14投2中只拿到6分4助攻，另外还有7次失误！
Lin Tian scored 50+ points for the third consecutive game!
In fact, tonight, because the opponent's resistance was too weak and Lin Tian's scoring explosiveness was too fierce, he even scored 25 points in just 50 minutes!
Lin Tian, ​​once again, has become the league's current super scoring king for a rather nonsensical reason!

But what happened next illustrates another problem.

That is, among the players who play the point guard position in this league, especially those who can play the position quite well, there is really no good person.

None of these tacticians have a clean heart!
Each one is dirtier and worse than the other.

Anyway, for the next half month, whenever Lin Tian went to a place, and whenever a team came to New York to challenge the Knicks, he would be provoked by the opponents in various ways.

The specific provocation is: "Lin, we need you to lead us out of the haze! We need you to be our leader, and we need you to be present at the players' union."

Lin Tian: “Fuck you, is this ever going to end!”

Then, in the nearly half month, the Knicks played a total of 8 games, and the Knicks won 8 consecutive games! In these 8 games, Lin Tian scored 1 points in 60 game, 5 points in 50 games, and 7 points in 40 games. Only in one game did he score less than 40 points, but in that game he also scored a large triple-double of 38 points, 15 rebounds, and 18 assists!
During this period of time, Lin Tian once again became the super invincible attacker who could kill anyone who stood in his way!
He really never tires of it.

Why are these people like cockroaches?
One after another, one after another, none of them can be killed?
What Lin Tian didn’t know was that at this time, there was even a big gambling game going on in the community: each participant invested 100 US dollars into the prize pool every day, and whoever could get Lin to agree to serve as the chairman of the players’ union would take the money, no matter how much money was in the prize pool!
It is precisely because of this that players from all over the league are not afraid of the risk of being beaten. They rush forward one after another, and then are beaten by Lin Tian, ​​rejected by Lin Tian, ​​and then leave sadly.

As time went by and the game went on, the stars in the league unknowingly even forgot to pass on messages to each other, telling the next person: Lin Tian is almost ready to agree to take the position.

Many people even no longer care about letting Lin Tian take the job.

The competition of this lottery has inexplicably changed from 'who can make Lin Tian the chairman' to 'who can avoid being beaten by Lin in this violent state'.

What's even more exaggerated is that everyone gradually discovered that no matter what kind of trash talk they threw at Lin Tian, ​​it was not as effective as saying "Come and be the chairman of the players' union"!
In short, now all the teams are sharpening their knives, waiting to fight with the Knicks, and then shouting this sentence at Lin Tian, ​​and then see if he can beat them!

These days, players have come on the court one by one, and been defeated one by one.

Whether it is the new generation of Deron, Paul and others, or the old generation of Iverson, Davis, Billups, they all returned empty-handed.

As time went by, Lin Tian became more and more unstoppable in December. When Lin Tian once again led his team to defeat the visiting Philadelphia 12ers and once again scored a near triple-double of 76 points, 40 rebounds and 9 assists, his average statistics this month have reached an extremely terrifying level.

场均47.5分11.4篮板10.8次助攻2.8抢断和1.7盖帽！

This month, Lin Tian has completely entered the violent mode! He can almost average 50 points per game!

And as December comes to an end, one of the most exciting moments of every regular season arrives.

Christmas war!

On the afternoon of December 12th, the six high-traffic teams selected by the league will be divided into three groups to fight against each other on this day. These three groups of matchups are also recognized by everyone as the most exciting, most gimmicky and most anticipated three games!
This year, the league has prepared three games for fans: Cleveland Cavaliers vs. San Antonio Spurs!
This group is a head-to-head confrontation between the 03 generation of new stars, Wade vs. James! These two players who signed a maximum salary contract with the team during the offseason are both friends and sworn enemies. Now the two are still evenly matched and are in a state of confrontation with each other. Their confrontation is also something that countless people are looking forward to!

Then it’s Dallas Mavericks vs. Phoenix Suns!

In the offensive battle, Nash once again came to the rescue. The showdown between these two top offensive teams in the league and the Western powerhouses is also something to look forward to.

As for the last group, it will be the finale of tonight.

The Knicks host the visiting Los Angeles Lakers! This is also a rematch of last year's finals!

Although O'Neal left the Lakers this year and McGrady joined, the team's record is not bad, but it is indeed not top-notch.

O'Neal's departure also transformed the Lakers from a positional team that mainly played inside to the fastest offensive team in the league built around two outside stars.

Even though O'Neal is gone and the Lakers are currently only ranked fifth in the Western Conference, the gimmick of Los Angeles vs. New York will never go out of style!

At the same time, the drama between Kobe, McGrady VS Lin Tian, ​​Stoudemire, and Anthony can also whet everyone's appetite!
Is it the duo with the strongest singles ability in the league that has the upper hand, or are the Knicks' Musketeers more crazy?

From the star status, star content to the number of stars, this game is definitely the most complete match among the three Christmas battles!
So this match was naturally scheduled to the end, and would not be played until after the other two matches were finished! (End of this chapter)